Oreo Cupcakes

For some reason I don’t make cupcakes as much as I used to but as soon as I made these I remembered how much I enjoyed it and how good they were. Seriously, you have to try them.

I baked these for my colleagues when I got back from Dubai in January because we have a tradition at work where if you go on holiday you bring something back for the team from the place you’ve travelled to and I couldn’t find anything in Dubai to bring back so I decided to whip up a batch of my favourite cupcakes on my last day off before I returned to the office.

Do you like my cupcake cases? I bought them for Lucy’s baby shower but ended up making a big cake instead which I shared in my Top Three Cakes of 2017 post. I really struggle to find cute cupcake cases so if you’ve got any recommendations for where to buy pretty ones please let me know!

Oreo Cupcakes

These Oreo cupcakes are a real crowd pleaser. Make them when you want to impress.

Prep Time15minutes

Cook Time25minutes

Total Time40minutes

Servings16cupcakes

AuthorVictoria

Ingredients

For the cupcakes

250gplain flour

270gcaster sugar

1tbspbaking powder

pinchtable salt

80gunsalted buttersoftened

250mlwhole milk

2largeeggs

1tspvanilla bean paste

100gcrushed Oreo biscuits

For the buttercream

250gunsalted buttersoftened

400gicing sugar

150gcrushed Oreo biscuits

Oreo biscuits to decorateoptional

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees fan.

For the cupcakes

Put the flour, sugar, baking powder and butter into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a beater attachment and mix on a low speed until you have a sand-like texture.

Using a fork, beat the milk, eggs and vanilla extract together in a jug.

Put the stand mixer on slow and add in half the milk mixture until the mixture starts to come together. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, increase the speed of the mixture and add the rest of the milk until the batter is silky.

Place the Oreo biscuits into a food processor and blitz into a fine power. Use a wooden spoon or spatula to fold the biscuits into the cake batter.

Spoon into cupcake cases and bake for 20-25 minutes until the cupcakes are well risen and a skewer comes out clean when inserted. The cupcakes should spring back when lightly pressed.

Leave the cupcakes to cool completely before icing.

For the buttercream

Place the butter into the bowl of a stand mixer and beat for approximately 5 minutes until the butter is light and soft. Add in the icing sugar and beat again until you have a soft icing.

Place the Oreo biscuits into a food processor and blitz until fine. Add into the bowl of the stand mixture and beat to combine. Finish mixing in by hand.

Add the buttercream to a piping bag fitted with your nozzle of choice, pipe the buttercream on and top with halved, whole or mini Oreo biscuits if you like.

This is the texture you want to achieve when you mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and butter together. It’s very fine and sand-like.

The batter will go from looking like wallpaper paste in the top picture to the silky smooth batter in the bottom picture in a matter of seconds once all of the milk is incorporated. Be patient and make sure you get the right texture. Once you get to this stage, stop mixing to avoid a tight crumb.

Fold the Oreo biscuits in by hand before filling the cupcake cases and baking.

I like to remove my cupcakes from the tin as soon as possible and leave them to cool completely before icing them, with the cold weather in the UK at the moment it doesn’t take long!

The buttercream might look like cement but it tastes delicious. If you find it a little too thick to pipe then beat for longer but add in a dash of boiling water to smooth the buttercream a little.

Decorate with Oreo biscuits if you like and enjoy. Make sure you take one out for yourself because they won’t last long once they’re shared!

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